Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Insulation Vapour Barrier




Well all the First Fixes have been passed so I've put up all the wall Bat insulation "R20", and the VB... So now with a Plastic ceiling the place warms up a little with the Heater...


The 1" thick 2'x4' MDF Sheets I got for $0.75 each (offcuts from a Mill), needed trimming and squaring up, so that's been a Labour intensive job but they where cheap so I can't whinge to much. A friend suggested routing the edges to make them look like a Brick stile finish once there painted, I'm all for good ideas so have a put a Chamfer on all the edges, and am very happy with the results... but it is alot of MDF dust.... and I'm bored with weiring a Mask..

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

And the reason for building this Garage is...

Just a few Rear Suspension shots..... and before you ask no there just dummy shocks... so we can adjust the suspension height with just a twist of the tube.




Getting back to my main Passion my car, I have a 2 Professional car Modelers coming to stay with me for 3 weeks in the summer. They have worked on some of the most expensive Hyper cars on the road today, they hand model in Clay all the prototype shapes you see at the shows before there built for real in Carbon and Steel...




We are going to redmodel the front again as I'm still not perfectly happy with what I have at present. What I have works fine but needs alittle more flare and passion...


They will also sculpt the Wheel arch vents, which will be detachable panels that drop into a rebate on the body. If you see any race car they tend to get damaged with flying stone ect so we can swap them out if so... Also means i can have them made from Carbon as I'll be making moulds from Hi Temp resin....

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Plumbing

Once I have all the First Fix inspections done I can finish the outer walls and put the Pipe manifold on the outer wall.




Here's the Commercial Gas powered Stainless Steel Hot water Tank, it's 95% efficient and so is able to have a plastic exhaust pipe. It will supply the house with hot water, (so I can remove the old tanks in the house and free up more room in the basement), but also heats the Glycol for the Radiant floor pipes via a plate pack and secondary recirculating pump.